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Thursday, May 8, 1986, p. 1.

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Rescue at Skinners Falls

By TOM RUE


SKINNERS FALLS - In this season's first reported river-related accident at Skinners Falls, Commodore Richard Rhodes of the National Canoe Safety Patrol indicated that a woman sustained a leg injury while canoeing through the rapids about 4:00 p.m. this Saturday.

When a canoe with three people became lodged on a rock, the young woman seated in the middle stepped out of the craft. Rhodes said she was struck in the leg by another canoe. Safety patrol volunteer Marv Honeywell threw a line to the two male passengers and "walked their boat back in through the rapids," Rhodes described.

The victim's leg was splinted and she was transported to a local medical center by the Tusten Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which was radioed by Kastino Takori of Lander's livery courtesy patrol.

A separate incident in the rapids occurred at about the same time. The foot of a capsized canoeist, who was standing chest-deep in the 50-degree water, became entrapped in rocks on the riverbed. The man panicked and began calling for help, Rhodes said, until Greg Temple "swam under water and freed his foot."

National Canoe Safety Patrol volunteers work in association with the National Park Services "Volunteers In Parks".

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